Walter Wilson Nana
10 October 2008
Daniel Ngom Kome, who trades his football know-how at Tenerife, Spain, and Eric Njemba Njemba, who is at OB, Denmark, are back into the Indomitable Lions squad.
Ngom Kome has been absent for six months after he was suspended by Cameroon's Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Thierry Augustin Edjoa, for indiscipline. This decision was taken after a Cameroon/Equatorial Guinea match played in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in November 2007. Ngom Kome was suspended along side Albert Meyong Zé.
Njemba is coming back after having shown proof of still being in top shape. He is said to have neglected his football career after a dismal performance with the Lions at the 2006 African Cup of Nations in Egypt. Back to his English club side, Aston Villa after Egypt 2006, Njemba wouldn't perform and will subsequently be shown the door by the team's manager.
He later moved to an English Division II club, where he did not last. Now, he is in Denmark, where German born technician for the Indomitable Lions, Otto Pfister says, Njemba is picking up with his football career and so he (Pfister) wants to test him (Njemba) for the upcoming match against the Mauritius Island in Yaounde, come Saturday, October 11.
Though the Lions began training timidly on Monday, October 6, the rest of the players were expected to join the training sessions by Wednesday, October 8. With qualification into the next phase of the joint ACN/World Cup 2010 eliminatories achieved already, Pfister is still taking the match against Mauritius Island seriously so as to better Cameroon's standing at the monthly FIFA rankings and to continuously search for a good team for the 2010 ACN slated for Angola and the 2010 World Cup billed for South Africa.
In the first leg match played in Curipipe, Cameroon trashed their Mauritian counterparts 3-0. The Lions currently top Group D with 10 points, followed by Cape Verde with 6 points.A FIFA decision of September 18, initially stating that Day 6 matches of the African eliminatories for World Cup 2010 be played at same time, has been changed. Therefore, the Cameroon/Mauritius Island match will be played at 3:30 PM on Saturday, October 11 at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Here is Pfister's list of 22 for the Saturday's match against the Mauritius Island;
Rigobert Song Bahanag , Geremi Soreille Njitap Fotso, Samuel Eto'o Fils, Thimothee Atouba Essama, Eric Njemba Njemba, André Bikey Amougou, Stephane Mbia Etoundi, Modeste Mbami Mbami, Idriss Carlos Kameni, Jules Augustin Binya, Souleymanou Hamidou, Achille Kwamou Webo, Franck Songo'o, Albert Meyong Zé, Guy Stephane Essame, Jean II Makoun, Alexis Ngambi, Sadjo Haman, Achille Emana, Somen à Tchoyi, Rostand Kouemaha and Daniel Ngom Kome.
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